College Leadership
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Lance Collins Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering 242 Carpenter Hall 255-9679 engineering_dean@cornell.edu |
Lance Collins, who was named dean in 2010, joined Cornell in 2002 as a member of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering faculty, following 11 years on the chemical engineering faculty at Pennsylvania State University. His research combines simulation and theory to study a variety of turbulent flow processes. He earned his B.S.E. in 1981 at Princeton University, his M.S. in 1983, and his Ph.D. in 1987 at the University of Pennsylvania, all in chemical engineering. |
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Alan Zehnder Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Recruitment Olin Hall 255-7514 ATZ2@cornell.edu |
Alan Zehnder, a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Society for Experimental Mechanics, joined the Cornell faculty in 1988. He has been a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology, a senior faculty fellow at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, and a guest professor at the Vienna University of Technology. His research is in the mechanics of materials and fracture, particularly in dynamic and thermo-mechanically coupled problems. He earned his B.S. in 1982 at the University of California at Berkeley and received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering with a minor in materials science from the California Institute of Technology in 1987. |
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Betsy East Assistant Dean for Student Services 170A Olin Hall 255-8240 ere2@cornell.edu |
Betsy East joined the engineering college in 1994 as administrative manager of AEP. In 1998 she became the director of engineering admissions and was appointed assistant dean in 2002. Prior to her tenure in engineering, she was the associate director of athletics and gymnastics coach. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Massachusetts in sport administration and a master’s degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell (1989). |
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Marjolein van der Meulen Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies 241 Carpenter Hall 255-0880 engr-research@cornell.edu |
Marjolein van der Meulen is the Swanson Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a senior scientist in the Research Division of the Hospital for Special Surgery. Her research in orthopaedic biomechanics focuses on the interaction between mechanical stimuli and the skeleton, and the mechanical properties of musculoskeletal tissues. She received her S.B. (1987) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her M.S. (1989), and Ph.D. (1993) from Stanford University, all in mechanical engineering. She has been a member of the Cornell faculty since 1996. |
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Charles E. Seyler Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs 167B Olin Hall 255-8240 engrugrad@cornell.edu |
Charles Seyler, the recipient of four Cornell teaching excellence awards, joined the faculty in 1981. He was previously a research scientist in the controlled-fusion theory group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Seyler's research focus at Cornell has been in space plasma physics and high energy density physics. He is currently engaged in 3D simulations of plasma applied to the Cornell pulsed power program. He earned his B.A. in 1970 and M.A. in 1972, at the University of South Florida, and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1975, all in physics. |
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Kathi A. Dantley Warren Assistant Dean for Alumni Affairs and Development 253 Carpenter Hall 255-8299 kad248@cornell.edu |
Kathi Warren joined the college staff in 2010. She was previously a major gifts officer at the Johns Hopkins University and the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. She later served as director of corporate relations at Smith, and in 2008, she was promoted to campaign director where she managed the major gifts fundraising activities and campaign operations. Warren holds a B.A. in biology from Hampton University and an M.A. in cell and molecular biology from Duke. |
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Dan Aneshansley Professor and Chair, Biological and Environmental Engineering 104 Riley Robb Hall (607) 255-2270 dja4@cornell.edu |
Dan Aneshansley joined the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering in 1984 and became chair in 2008. He previously held joint appointments in Electrical Engineering and Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell. He worked in the electronics industry and currently consults as an expert witness. His interests are in biological modeling and instrumentation as applied to plant/animal physiology and energy. He has four patents and more than one hundred publications and has collaborated on science programs for PBS, BBC, and Canadian television and a National Geographic special. He earned a B.S.E.E. from the University of Cincinnati in 1965, an M.S. from Cornell in 1968, and a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1974. |
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Lynden A. Archer Marjorie L. Hart Professor and William C. Hooey Director, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 348 Olin Hall (607) 254-8825 laa25@cornell.edu |
Lynden Archer joined the Cornell faculty in 2000. He was appointed director of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2010. Since 2008 he has served as co-director of the KAUST-Cornell Center for Energy and Sustainability. His research focuses on transport properties of polymers and organic-inorganic hybrid materials. Archer is also interested in applications of hybrid materials for energy storage and carbon capture technologies. During the period 1993–94 he was a postdoctoral member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and has been recognized with several awards, including the AICHE MAC Centennial Engineer Award, James and Mary Tien Excellence in Teaching Award, the National Science Foundation Early Career Award, and DuPont and 3M Young Professor Awards. He earned a B.S. in chemical engineering (polymer science) from the University of Southern California in 1989 and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Stanford University in 1993. |
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Larry Douglas Brown Professor and Chair, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences 2116 Snee Hall (607) 255-6346 ldb7@cornell.edu |
Larry Brown has been the Director of the Institute for the Study of the Continents (INSTOC) since 2004. His primary research interest is application of multichannel seismic reflection methods to the exploration of the continental lithosphere and to the investigation of deep tectonic processes. Current and recent projects include studies of the Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau, the island of Taiwan, the volcanically active Caribbean island of Montserrat, and the high plateau of the central Andes. In addition, Brown's interests include developing new seismic imaging methodologies using ambient "noise" and application of Ground Penetrating Radar to archaeological and geological investigations. He earned a B.S. in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1973 and a Ph.D. in geological sciences from Cornell in 1976. |
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Mark Campbell S.C. Thomas Sze Director and Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 208 Upson Hall (607) 255-4268 mc288@cornell.edu |
Mark Campbell joined the Cornell faculty in 2001. He was an assistant professor at the University of Washington from 1997-2001. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University (B.S.) and MIT (M.S., Ph.D.), he worked on MACE, a dynamics and control laboratory flown on Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1995. He spent his 2005-06 sabbatical year as a visiting scientist at the Insitu group, maker of small autonomous UAV's for commercial and defense applications, and as an Australian Research Council international fellow. Campbell has been the recipient of several college and national teaching awards and several best paper awards. He received the Bennet Prize and is an Andrew Carnegie Scholar. He is currently an associate fellow of the AIAA and is serving as a member of the DoD's Defense Science Study Group, as well as an editor for several aerospace journals. |
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Tsuhan Chen David E. Burr Professor of Engineering and Director, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering 224 Phillips Hall (607) 255-5728 tc345@cornell.edu |
Tsuhan Chen became director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2009 after an extensive national search. Previously, he was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he served as associate department head and co-director of the Industrial Technology Research Institute Laboratory, and a researcher at Bell Labs. His research group, the Advanced Multimedia Processing Lab, has wide interests in various techniques for visual computing, including image processing, pattern recognition, and computer vision. He earned his B.S. from National Taiwan University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Caltech, all in electrical engineering. |
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Alex Gaeta Professor and Director, Applied and Engineering Physics 224 Clark Hall (607) 255-9983 a.gaeta@cornell.edu |
Alex Gaeta joined the Cornell faculty in 1992. He received Young Investigator Awards from the Office of Naval Research in 1993, and from the Army Research Office in 1995. He was a recipient of a College of Engineering Teaching Award in 1997, 2000, 2003, 2007. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America and of the American Physical Society. He received his doctoral degree in optics from the University of Rochester, where he remained for two years as a postdoctoral research associate. Gaeta has served as the director of the Center for Nanoscale Systems since 2007. |
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Darrell Schlom Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Industrial Chemistry and Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering 230 Bard Hall (607) 255-9680 schlom@cornell.edu |
Darrell Schlom is the Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Industrial Chemistry and Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University. After receiving a B.S. degree from Caltech, he did graduate work at Stanford University receiving an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering. He was then a post-doc at IBM’s research lab in Zurich, Switzerland in the oxide superconductors and novel materials group managed by Nobel Prize winners J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller. He has received various awards including young investigator awards from ONR and NSF, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, and the MRS Medal. He is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the Materials Research Society and currently serves as the Chair of the Division of Materials Physics of the American Physical Society. |
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Joseph Halpern Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science 4130 Upson Hall (607) 255-0983 chair@cs.cornell.edu |
Joe Halpern joined Cornell in 1996. Before that, he was on staff at the IBM Almaden Research Center and a consulting professor at Stanford University and has spent many years on the IBM research staff. His research interests include reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty, qualitative reasoning, belief revision, (fault-tolerant) distributed computation, modal logic, game theory, decision theory, and security. He is a fellow of the AAAS and ACM. He is a recipient of the Godel Prize, the Dijkstra Prize, the Newell Award, and the ACM-SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award. He earned a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1975, an A.M. from Harvard University in 1979, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1981, all in mathematics. |
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Adrian S. Lewis Professor and Director, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering 234 Rhodes Hall (607) 255-9147 aslewis@orie.cornell.edu |
Adrian S. Lewis joined the Cornell faculty in 2004. Previously, he had been a professor of mathematics at Simon Fraser University and a professor of combinatorics and optimization at the University of Waterloo. His research concerns variational analysis and nonsmooth optimization, with a particular interest in optimization problems involving eigenvalues. He earned a B.A. in mathematics in 1983, an M.A. in 1987, and a Ph.D. in engineering in 1987, all from Cambridge University. |
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Philip L.-F. Liu Director and Class of 1912 Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering 118 Hollister Hall 255-5090 pll3@cornell.edu |
Phil Liu joined Cornell faculty in 1974. His research interests include a wide range of topics in fluid mechanics and hydrodynamics, including tsunamis, free surface tracking, wave-structure interaction, wave-seafloor interaction, sediment transport, wave breaking, and internal waves. During his sabbatical leaves and short-term leaves from Cornell, Liu has worked at various consulting firms, government laboratories and universities in California, Delaware, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Norway, Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, Germany, Taiwan, and Italy. He earned a B.S. degree in civil engineering from National Taiwan University in 1968, a S.M. in civil engineering in 1971, and a Sc.D. in hydrodynamics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974. |
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Linda K. Nozick Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director, Systems Engineering Program 323 Hollister Hall (607) 255-6496 lkn3@cornell.edu |
Linda Nozick joined the faculty at Cornell in 1992 after completing her doctorate. She has also been a visiting associate professor in the Operations Research Department at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., and a visiting professor in the General Motors Global R&D Center in Warren, Mich. Her fields of expertise is complex systems modeling with an emphasis on critical infrastructure systems and hazardous materials transportation. She earned a B.S. in systems analysis and engineering from The George Washington University in 1989 and M.S.E. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in systems engineering in 1990 and 1992, respectively. |
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Michael L. Shuler James M. and Marsha McCormick Chair of Biomedical Engineering and Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Chemical Engineering 115 Weill Hall (607) 255-7577 mls50@cornell.edu |
Mike Shuler has been a member of the Cornell faculty since 1974 and has earned two teaching awards. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers for which he has served as vice president for education. He has received the Amgen Award in biochemical engineering and was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineers and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on applying chemical reaction engineering principles to biological systems. He earned a B.S. from the University of Notre Dame in 1969 and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1973, both in chemical engineering. |
